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Snow blocks in tens of thousands as cold death toll risesBelgrade (AFP) Feb 11, 2012 Snow drifts reaching up to rooftops kept tens of thousands of villagers prisoners in their own homes Saturday as the death toll from Europe's big freeze rose past 550. More heavy snow fell on the Balkans and in Italy, while the Danube river, already closed to shipping for hundreds of kilometres (miles) because of thick ice, froze over in Bulgaria for the first time in 27 years. Montenegro's capital of Podgorica was brought to a standstill by snow 50 centimetres (20 inches) deep, a 50-year record ... read more |
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  Deconstructing a Mystery: What Caused Snowmaggedon? In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push th ... more | .. |
  CU-Boulder study shows global glaciers, ice caps, shedding billions of tons of mass annually Earth's glaciers and ice caps outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding roughly 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Bou ... more | .. |
  Genetic Rosetta Stone unveiled in Nature Scientists have developed a new community resource that may act as a Rosetta stone for revealing the genetic basis of traits and disease. A paper in Nature describes the Drosophila Genetic Ref ... more | .. |
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  2011 shark attacks remain steady, deaths highest since 1993 Shark attacks in the U.S. declined in 2011, but worldwide fatalities reached a two-decade high, according to the University of Florida's International Shark Attack File report released last week. ... more | .. |
  Shedding light on genetics of rice metabolism A large-scale study analyzing metabolic compounds in rice grains conducted by researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) and their collaborators has identified 131 rice metabolites and clar ... more | .. |
  3D laser map shows earthquake before and after Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Sci ... more | .. |
 5-10 percent corn yield jump using erosion-slowing cover crops The most recent annual results from a four-year Iowa State University study on using cover crops between rows of corn reveals that higher yields - by as much as 10 percent - are possible using the s ... more |
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Seoul's power giant pushes back on EU probe into Czech nuclear bid
Nuclear option: Indonesia seeks to grow energy, cut emissions
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 Ocean microbe communities changing, but long-term environmental impact is unclear As oceans warm due to climate change, water layers will mix less and affect the microbes and plankton that pump carbon out of the atmosphere - but researchers say it's still unclear whether these pr ... more | .. |
 Fresh city tomatoes, any time Why not produce lettuce, beans and tomatoes where most of the consumers are to be found: in the city? The flat roofs of many buildings are well-suited for growing vegetables. Rooftop greenhouses can ... more | .. |
  Japan's Fukushima reactor may be reheating: operator Temperature readings at one of the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors have risen above Japan's stringent new safety standard but there was no immediate danger, its operator said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Ocean warming causes elephant seals to dive deeper Global warming is having an effect on the dive behaviour and search for food of southern elephant seals. Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz ... more |
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 Fruit flies drawn to the sweet smell of youth Aging takes its toll on sex appeal and now an international team of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Michigan find that in fruit flies, at least, it even diminishe ... more | .. |
 How the zebra got its stripes If there was a 'Just So' story for how the zebra got its stripes, I'm sure that Rudyard Kipling would have come up with an amusing and entertaining camouflage explanation. But would he have come up ... more | .. |
  Tibetan nun self-immolates in China: rights groups An 18-year-old nun set herself on fire in China's restive southwest and later died, rights groups said Sunday, the latest in a spate of such incidents among ethnic Tibetans protesting Beijing's rule. ... more | .. |
  Egypt's military rulers hail low turnout in strikes Egypt's military rulers on Sunday hailed the low turnout in strikes called by anti-army activists exactly a year since Hosni Mubarak's ouster on February 11 as a victory against their opponents. ... more |
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North Korea says US missile shield plans risk 'nuclear war' in space
Israel military says intercepted two projectiles fired from Yemen
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 Pleiades captures its first images using e2v sensors Pleiades, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Earth observation satellite, has captured its first images using e2v high performance imaging sensors. Two types of e2v sensors (for panchroma ... more | .. |
 Chinese village experiments with democracy A Chinese village which staged an extraordinary rebellion against authorities last year has taken a key step in a process to freely elect its own governing committee, residents said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Libya fallout fans Sahel hunger pangs as crisis looms Sahel states are bracing for a long, potentially deadly hungry season, many weakened by the return of people from Libya who are unemployed, armed and creating fresh strife in already-vulnerable countries. ... more | .. |
 Hungary orders Danube closed amid big freeze Hungary closed the Danube to river traffic Friday due to thick ice, bringing shipping to a near standstill on Europe's busiest waterway, as the continent's cold snap death toll passed 540. ... more |
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  Health experts, scientists to discuss bird flu studies The World Health Organization said Friday it will meet next week to determine whether scientists can publish research on a bird flu virus that may be easily passed among humans. ... more | .. |
 Early farmers may have impacted climate Present-day humans may not be the first to have affected world climate, researchers say, citing possible changes in Africa triggered by farmers 3,000 years ago. ... more | .. |
  A silver bullet to beat cancer? The internet is awash with stories of how silver can be used to treat cancer. Now, lab tests have shown that it is as effective as the leading chemotherapy drug - and may have fewer side-effects. ... more | .. |
 Tree rings may underestimate climate response to volcanic eruptions Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even ... more |
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SpaceX set for next Starship launch after fiery failures
Microsoft AI weather forecast faster, cheaper, truer: study
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  Brain capacity limits exponential online data growth Scientists have found that the capacity of the human brain to process and record information - and not economic constraints - may constitute the dominant limiting factor for the overall growth of gl ... more | .. |
 Putin receives 'prehistoric' water from Antarctic lake Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was given a water sample Friday taken from a pristine lake hidden under Antarctic ice for over a million years, after Russian scientists drilled down to its surface. ... more | .. |
 Greece being torn apart by austerity cuts Greece is being torn apart by the punishing demands of a harsh austerity program set in motion by a deeply divided government. ... more | .. |
 Reform of EU fishing quotas urged Letting overfished fish stocks recover would, over time, help the European fishing industry earn more money and create more jobs, a study says. ... more |
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 Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil In 2010, Svante Paabo and his colleagues presented a draft version of the genome from a small fragment of a human finger bone discovered in Denisova Cave in southern Siberia. The DNA sequences showe ... more | .. |
 Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of European ladybirds A new study provides compelling evidence that the arrival of the invasive non-native harlequin ladybird to mainland Europe and subsequent spread has led to a rapid decline in historically-widespread ... more | .. |
  Southern Indian Ocean humpbacks singing different tunes A recently published study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and others reveals that humpback whales on both sides of the southern Indian Ocean are singing different tunes, unusual since humpback ... more | .. |
 Death toll in Philippine quake rises to 39 The death toll from a strong quake this week in the central Philippines rose to 39 on Friday, with dozens of missing feared dead, a disaster official said. ... more |
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